We have to get the welfare bill down.
Currently we are the best place in the world for the work shy.
All those unemployed for more than three months report to the job centre mon morn for work.
We have some of the dirtiest streets etc in the civilised world.
Divide the money they get by min wage and that's how many hours they have to work.
The genuine people will be glad to meet others and it will encourage people to look for better jobs.
Who will manage them - the existing people who are struggling to do the jobs currently.
Example - Street cleaners - give them two unemployed each and details from their current foreman of the extra work to be done.
We already pay for work but they sit at home and make the willing worker pay for them .
We need urgent change.

So all people, unemployed for more than 3 months, are work shy? Try telling all those unemployed who are struggling to find work, applying for jobs every week, that they are lazy and work shy.

Most unemployed people want to work and earn more money. Making them clean the streets, or do other dirty jobs, for a pittance, won't help them and won't help those people who lose their jobs because they are no longer needed.

It would seem fair to me for anyone claiming JSA to do the appropriate number of hours work pro rata to the usual wage paid for that job. I find the reference to 'dirty jobs' a little disconcerting as it seems a trifle snobbish and is disrespectful to those already employed full time.

My son was made redundant in 2011. He has managed to get some work on a temporary basis. Had a phone call yesterday to say he had been for another interview and he may be offered another six month contract with the possibility of becoming full time. Only snag is it is in Hinkley and he lives in Kent.
One job he applied for said he was over qualified.
So not all the unemployed want to stay at home.

Which is one of things being mentioned more, that not everyone can afford or wants computers or internet access for some reason or other. Even public places with internet access are having restrictions placed on them, due to funding and cost cutting. Then there are some who fear security when using these public access places, plus suspicions of a forthcoming Big Brother state?.

I recall a few years ago, when the Post Office services where installing public use computer terminals in Post Offices, as the way forward, especially for obtaining government information. What ever happened to that idea, because it wasn't all that long, for the terminals to be removed and never seen again.